Music Monday--Advent--Gabriel's Message
For Advent, Dymphna's Well will be doing a Lessons and Carols of a sort in preparation for Christmas. Today's carol precedes the official start of Advent, but I thought we needed a head start and a...
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Music Monday--Supplemental
Virtual Abbey has three Advent playlists on YouTube--two traditional and one more contemporary. Please click the link above and check them out. Scroll down on the page until you see the Advent...
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Advent Resources
What will you be doing to prepare for Christmas this year? During Advent, I will be reading Advent and Christmas Wisdom from G.K. Chesterton, which I bought from my local Catholic bookstore. I had...
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Sunday Snippets--a Catholic Carnival
Sunday Snippets is brought to you each week by RAnn at This, That and the Other Thing.This week's Music Monday was the beautiful carol, Gabrielle's Message. I posted a supplement to Music Monday...
View ArticleMusic Monday--Advent--People Look East
This is such a nice Advent Carol that I like to include, usually near the end of Advent. It talks about the anticipatory joy of Advent. (Also, I love the idea of the Church as a whole "looking East"...
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Advent as a Subversive Act
I was quite intrigued, in this time of increasing pressure to keep one's Christianity "in the closet" so to speak, when I read an excerpt from Fr. Ron Rolheiser's article, Advent Preparing for the...
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Sunday Snippets--A Catholic Carnival
Sunday Snippets is brought to you each week by RAnn at This, That and the Other Thing.Our Advent carol this week was People Look East and our reflection was on Advent as a Subversive Act.Have a...
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Advent Preaching Series
I wanted to highlight a Dominican Advent preaching series that Lea Libresco has brought to our attention. This year, the brothers at the Dominican House of Studies are preaching about the 4 last...
View ArticleMusic Monday--Advent--Lo How a Rose 'Ere Blooming
This choral arrangement of Lo, How a Rose 'Ere Blooming is accompanied by beautifully seasonal pictures. I like to bring out this carol on the third Sunday of Advent (the "rose" Sunday) in anticipation...
View ArticleChristian Practices in a Consumer Culture
Vox Nova has an inspiring article about Christian Practices in a Consumer Culture. The article suggests, basically, that we practice Catholic spirituality in order to give ourselves a bit of a distance...
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Prayer to the Holy Innocents for the CT Shooting Victims
Edited to add: I found this prayer and the beautiful holy card on Facebook. My grandmother had a great devotion to the Holy Innocents because she lost 7 of her 14 children, most before birth, due to a...
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The Paradox of Advent
I'm thinking there is a spiritual purpose to what I call the paradox of Advent.Little Lent Advent is a time in the Church where the priest and the altar wear purple--just like Lent. It is a time when...
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Sunday Snippets--A Catholic Carnival
Sunday Snippets is brought to you each week by RAnn at This, That and the Other Thing.This week's Music Monday was the beautiful Lo How a Rose 'Ere Blooming. Our Advent reflection was about the...
View ArticleMusic Monday--Advent--In the Bleak Midwinter
Today's Advent Carol is actually more for Christmas, but its melody so poignant and with its lyrics that speak of the bleak midwinter, I like to sing it during the final week of Advent, when all hope...
View ArticleThere is Good in the World
This is a beautiful, tear-inducing video. People of all beliefs, and no belief, are working together for good for little children--schools, where, before, there were none. There *is* good in the...
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Article 9
Sunday Snippets is brought to you each week by RAnn at This, That and the Other Thing.Our Music Monday this week was the beautiful In the Bleak Midwinter. Just when we are losing hope, Jesus appears....
View ArticleMusic Monday--Christmas Eve--Hodie Christus Natus Est
I became aware of Benjamin Britten's Ceremony of Carols during High School and fell in love with each of the songs. This one, Hodie Christus Natus Est means Today Christ is Born. I sing it as an...
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Patron Saint 2013
This year, the first blog I ran across who is facilitating the saint of the year devotion, is A Catholic Life. Go to the linked post and leave your name, or initials and email. The saint will be...
View ArticleGood King Wenceslaus
Happy Feast of Stephen! The snow is certainly laying 'round about here today!
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